In a previous post, I explained how to use the Ubuntu Server Netboot Tarball to install the OS via PXE. However, it still requires the sysadmin to have access to the physical machine. This is not scable. By using an Ubuntu autoinstall configuration file, it is possible to automate the entire installation process completely. In this post, I first explain how Ubuntu autoinstall works, and then how have I set it up for my use.| Technical Scratchpad
For better or worse, one of the desktops in my homelab needed a new installation of the OS but could not read the bootable USB containing Ubuntu Server 24.04. I decided to take this opportunity to get some experience to install Ubuntu Server with using the netboot tarball image instead. This post documents the steps of how I managed to do it.| Technical Scratchpad
To gain some more experience with FreeBSD, I decided to make a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1. My goal is to set something up similar to Debian/Ubuntu + preseeding or Redhat/CentOS + kickstart. Getting a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1 was not easy and I was …| Louwrentius
So after I set up my VLANs, it| astrid.tech
The Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (aka DaRT) is a powerful toolset that is available to Software Assurance customers. Johan Arwidmark recently wrote a post called Back to Basics – Reset the Windows 10 Admin Password using DaRT that covers the steps for creating the recovery media. The DaRT Recovery Image Wizard will generate a…| Mike's Tech Blog
Chainload GRUB 2 from GRUB 2 2021-11-27, 00:00 en GRUB Boot PXE I recently needed to set up a PC to dual boot Windows and Linux. Legacy BIOS, no UEFI. Unfortunately Windows likes to do Windows things and override the first-stage GRUB bootloader in the MBR with its own, and thereafter booting…| s3lph.me
Generally when someone wants to install a Linux distro they start with an ISO| sthbrx.github.io